I'm Evolving

Check out my previous blog back in 2005:
http://hopeless-optimist.blogspot.com/2005_09_25_archive.html.

I think my blog was more interesting back then, it was so full of enthusiasm, youthful dreams, and hopeful.

I guess now, my new blog is stripped down to its bare essentials. It's more minimalist, straight to the point, yet still not revealing everything.

It's me who's evolving also, and it's for the better. I still have that enthusiasm, youthful dreams and I'm still hopeful despite everything that happened to my life.

However, when reality happens to you (that kind you thought only happens in a dramatic movie), you will look at life in a clearer pair of eyes. No more rose-colored glasses.

4 years fly by, and a lot of things happened.

It's time to evolve more, become the best that I can be. =)

Nothing Compares to You

Sometimes, you just have to stop comparing notes. It leads you nowhere. You just have to appreciate each person, situation, or thing with its own uniqueness and beauty...

As they say, “If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself”.

Back in Manila!

Dinagyang was fun! It was my first time to really walk the streets of Iloilo on this feast of Sto. Nino. It's really different when you are beside the tribes and you really feel the sound of the drums (as compared to watching the whole thing on TV).
During my 5-day vacation I was able to:
1. Eat lots and lots of fresh "kasag" (crabs) from Banate (brought by my tita)
2. Eat lechon manok.. can't get enough of it
3. Satisfied my craving for oysters (although my stomach really went bad after...had to throw up all I ate, but I'll still eat oysters)
4. Had a La Paz Batchoy snack at Ted's
5. Had an eat-all-you-can Japanese food at Maki's (although I ate shrimp tempura mostly, yum!)

So, that's how I gained 5 lbs in 5 days.. hehehe..

It was fun being with my cousins, had a night out, drank at MO2, had videoke at Annex, swam at Centennial resort (which we consider our backyard..hehehe).

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When we got back to Manila, had to send off my sister to the airport. She's going to be working in Canada. I'm so happy and glad for her, at the same time sad that she left. My parents dream of migrating there.

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On a lighter note, my agent texted me that I won a Canon digital camera! I wasn't surprised though, I was expecting to win the raffle in the office. The law of attraction worked! Heheheh.

Also, I know I will be lucky this 2009, I don't know why, but I know this is my year..Law of Positive Thinking...hehehe!

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Back to serious work again..

Going home!

Yes, I'm going home for Dinagyang! Well, what seems to be a week of merriment and fiestas for others is actually a week of relaxation for me.
It's time to take my mind off work and just relax and eat lots of fresh and healthy food. Looking forward to crabs, prawns, danggit, oysters, La Paz batchoy, pancit molo, Kong Kee siopao, Roberto's pancit guisado... ok, ok, not all might be healthy. =)
What I really miss though is my family... and my sister's going to Canada to work.. so, I guess this would be the last time we would be complete and it would probably be a year or two until we get together again.

However, I'm so happy for all of us. I feel so blessed that my parents and sisters are all enjoying life and I hope we will continue to be blessed with good health and good fortune this 2009.

Kung hei fat choy! =))

Unexpected Love

One topic in blogging that I really try to avoid is love and relationships. Because I don't want to turn it into a "Lovingly yours..." segment. Hehehe.
Anyways, can't help it. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow and see where it leads you..(maybe to a vast sea and nice beaches??) =)
I just want to say that my belief for "everything happens for a reason" is stronger than ever and that He is in control of my life.

That's the blog...short and sweet.

=)

Lazing Around

Two days of vacation leave plus two rest days.. equals four days of hibernation. So what did I accomplish during those time? Hmm..

I was able to chat with my friends, installled mIRC (don't know how to use it though), watched Madagascar 2 Escape to Africa (which I really found hilarious !I was just embarrassed to laugh out loud in the theater heheh), went to church with my sis and did grocery, played online, and slept a lot!

What I did not accomplish was .... to do the laundry, to finish my clearance, to fix my room...hays..

By the way, it was the first time I used mIRC, someone PMd me, he's from Singapore, turns out his friends are my friends. Small world! Well, Singapore is smaller.

I'm really not a chatter, not much of a blogger. I missed badminton, I missed trekking, climbing the mountains, going to the beach...expensive hobbies though and time-consuming.

So it was just another lazy four days...back to work again. =)

Almost #1

My team was ranked 2nd out of 50 teams in our department. It was such joy and disappointment at the same time. From rank 48 last time, we managed to climbed up the ladder. However, we were so close in grabbing the number 1 spot, I even had my ears clapping already. But, this kind of exhilaration really can give you that disappointing feeling. It also reminds you to be humble in victory and humbler in loss.

Oh well, there's always the next time. =)